Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site

Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by callmeed on Sunday July 19, 2009 @11:13PM (#713858)

I'm all for blocking framing sites like the Diggbar, but killing all URL shorteners is a bad idea, IMO.

With Twitter growing so fast and automatically shortening pasted URLs, you could actually be losing some quality traffic if people start talking about your business/app/site.

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Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by calambrac on Monday July 20, 2009 @12:12AM (#713933)

Someone with a big vested interest in seeing the internet not break needs to step up and provide a shortening service that says "if you own the target, you own the shortened link, period".

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Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by barredo on Monday July 20, 2009 @02:46AM (#714068)

like http://awe.sm ?

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Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by chaosprophet on Monday July 20, 2009 @02:37AM (#714058)

I agree. Most of my sites have frame busting code in them, simply because most of the times, the frame spoils the look of my page. Also the frame sort of implies as though my page is part of the site that does the framing, and I find that annoying.

As regards URL shorteners, I don't mind them one bit. The only problem I have with URL shorteners is that they may be used to disguise malicious links, and even that problem is being solved (bit.ly provides automatic warnings).

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